1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
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a  mayonnaise  dressing  enriched  with 
cream.  Lay  the  whites  of  eggs  cut  in 
rings  in  a  chain  on  top  of  the  salad. 
A  Peep  into  Some  Dinner 
Pails. 
UR  Chief  Cook  has  most  cruelly  de¬ 
barred  us  who  are  mothers  from 
competing  for  a  prize  regarding  our 
children’s  moral  training  ;  but  she  says 
nothing  about  the  training  of  their  stom¬ 
achs  through  the  dinner  pail,  so  I  mean  to 
take  advantage  of  the  omission  and  give 
a  dinner  pail  lecture. 
Most  country  children  take  their  din¬ 
ners  to  school,  and  often  parents  seem  to 
vie  with  each  other  as  to  whose  child 
should  have  the  nicest-looking  dinner 
so  I  am  going  to  show  you  some  dinner 
pails  and  their  contents. 
Here  is  one  brought  by  a  little  German 
crirl.  She  says  she  never  has  pie  or  cake, 
as  it  is  unhealthy  ;  instead,  she  has  sev¬ 
eral  slices  of  bread  and  butter  and  a 
couple  of  slices  of  salt  pork,  sometimes 
boiled,  sometimes  fried  !  She  has  a  shiny 
red  complexion,  with  a  good  many 
blotches  and  pimples  on  her  face. 
We  turn  to  another  little  girl :  no  won¬ 
der  she  is  pale  ;  she  has  a  large  square  of 
corned  beef,  a  great  green  cucumber  if  it 
is  summer  time,  several  slices  of  rich  pie 
and  cake,  a  cup  of  sauce,  cheese,  and  sour, 
heavy  bread.  She  goes  around  the  school 
room  coaxing  other  little  girls  to  change 
bread  with  her  as  her  mamma  doesn’t 
bake  good  bread. 
Here  are  two  more  little  girls — such 
thin,  nervous  children  that  it  gives  one 
the  horrors  to  see  them.  They  have  three 
or  four  pieces  of  dried  apricots,  apples  or 
prunes  just  as  they  left  the  store.  Mamma 
had  no  time  to  cook  them  perhaps,  but 
nevertheless  they  are  very  poor  food  for 
a  child's  stomach.  These  children  too 
have  sour  bread  and  some  cake  or  pie 
and  sometimes  meat,  cheese  or  pickles ; 
and  it  is  always  the  same  story. 
Now  over  here  in  another  corner  sit 
three  more  children.  One  little  girl  comes 
up  to  them  and  says  : 
“  Oh,  what  have  you  for  dinner  ?” 
“  Corn  fritters,”  says  one. 
“  I  wish  I  had  some  ;  how  does  your 
mamma  make  them  ?” 
“Oh,”  says  the  oldest,  “she  takes  a 
can  of  corn,  an  egg,  some  flour,  a  little 
baking  powder,  salt,  pepper  and  milk, 
and  stirs  all  together.  Then  she  fries  it 
in  little  cakes  in  the  spider.” 
“Give  me  a  piece  of  your  bread  won’t 
you  ?  My  mamma  doesn’t  make  as  good 
bread  as  yours  does. 
The  dinner  that  day  for  the  three  chil¬ 
dren  was  six  slices  of  nice,  sweet  bread, 
tbinly  spread  with  good  butter,  a  large 
corn  fritter  apiece,  a  generous  slice  of 
very  plain  fruit  cake,  two  sweet  cucum¬ 
ber  pickles,  and  two  fresh  crackers 
apiece.  Another  day  they  had  a  cupful 
of  jelly,  as  all  the  children  thought ;  it 
was  merely  a  left-over  dish  of  blackberry 
sauce  put  in  a  little  stew-pan  with  some 
gelatine  and  sugar,  boiled  up,  then  put 
away  in  a  cup  to  harden — not  a  bit  rich, 
but  so  tempting — the  same  amount  of 
bread  and  cake  and  crackers  this  time, 
with  a  thin  slice  of  cold  beef  and  pickles, 
was  their  dinner. 
At  another  time  it  was  a  cupful  of  cold 
baked  beans,  an  apple  for  each,  tomato 
pickles  or  chow  chow,  and,  in  place  of 
crackers,  a  nice  griddle  cake  or  two 
apiece,  with  jelly.  Another  day  a  boiled 
egg  for  each,  baked  apples,  plain  cookies, 
and  plenty  of  bread  are  what  their  dinner 
pail  contained.  At  another  time  it  is  a 
nice  baked  custard,  or  a  little  bread  or 
rice  pudding  baked,  with  a  slice  of  cold 
When  Baby  was  sick,  we  gave  her  Castorla, 
When  she  was  a  Child,  she  cried  for  Castorla, 
When  she  became  Miss,  she  clung  to  Castorla, 
When  she  had  Children,  she  gave  them  Castorla 
beef  or  ham,  apples  or  pickles,  bread,  but 
no  sauce.  And  even  the  teacher  tells 
these  little  ones  she  feels  tempted  to 
rifle  their  dinner  basket.  Thej7  enjoy  a 
cold  baked  potato  with  a  little  salt  and 
a  cupful  of  canned  tomatoes  ;  or,  if  it  is 
summer  time,  thay  delight  in  taking  ripe 
tomatoes  from  the  garden,  or  an  ear  of 
boiled  com,  a  cupful  of  peas,  or  string 
beans,  or  a  new  boiled  potato.  Once  in 
a  while  a  piece  of  pie  is  allowed  them 
when  they  have  no  cake. 
Many  children  carry  a  bottle  of  cold 
coffee — a  very  bad  habit.  Old  people 
should  never  drink  while  eating  if  they 
wish  to  avoid  stomach  troubles  ;  so  many 
physicians  tell  us.  But  they  also  tell  us 
that  growing  children  should  have  plenty 
of  good  water  or  milk.  The  little  ones 
of  whom  I  have  been  telling  you  never 
carry  coffee,  but  have  plenty  of  good 
pure  water  to  drink  ;  those  first  men¬ 
tioned  carry  tea,  coffee  and  milk  as  they 
choose.  Now  teachers  all,  while  you 
are  telling  Thk  Rural  readers  how 
mothers  may  assist  you  in  the  training 
of  the  little  ones,  just  say  if  f  am  not 
right  on  this  dinner  question.  We  mothers 
should  all  make  friends  with  the  teachers, 
for  a  bond  of  sympathy  unites  us. 
MRS.  JOHN  MONSKY. 
[Our  friend  does  not  state  her  point 
very  clearly  ;  but  we  gather  that  a  good 
variety  without  pie,  rich  cake,  tea  or 
coffee,  is  her  idea  of  noon  lunch  for 
school  children,  Pickles  do  not  seem  to 
be  down  in  her  black  book. — Eds.] 
Orange  Sweetmeats. 
THE  Housewife  tells  of  a  pretty  sweet¬ 
meat,  to  be  prepared  from  oranges, 
as  follows : 
“Peel  some  nice  oranges,  removing  as 
much  of  the  white  pith  as  you  can,  and 
divide  them  into  their  natural  quarters. 
Wipe  quite  dry  in  a  clean  cloth,  then 
with  a  needle  and  thread  make  a  longish 
loop  through  the  white  part  in  the  middle 
of  each  quarter.  Slip  these  loops  five  or 
six  at  a  time  on  to  skewers,  so  that  the 
orange  quarters  hang  free  without  touch¬ 
ing  one  another.  Now  boil  some  sugar 
and  water  (one  pound  of  sugar  to  a  good 
tumbler  of  water)  to  a  syrup,  skimming 
it  carefully.  When  a  drop  of  this,  lifted 
out  on  the  point  of  a  knife  and  dropped 
into  cold  water,  will  snap  off  short 
between  one’s  fingers,  lift  in  both  hands 
one  of  the  skewers  and  dip  the  orange  in 
and  out  of  the  syrup,  then  put  aside  the 
skewer,  supporting  both  ends  so  that  the 
fruit  hangs  clear,  and  let  it  set.  Repeat 
this  process  very  quickly  till  the  fruit 
is  all  done.  Oil  a  plain  mold  and  arrange 
the  orange  all  round  it  in  rows,  each 
quarter  overlapping  the  next  one,  each 
alternate  row  going  the  opposite  way  to 
the  previous  one,  fixing  the  fruit  with  a 
little  more  syrup.  Set  the  mold  on  ice 
till  hard  ;  then  slip  a  knife  round  the 
mold  to  loosen  the  orange,  turn  it  on  a 
dish  and  fill  up  the  center  with  whipped 
cream.” 
Free  to  All. 
A  SHREWD  writer  in  Good  House¬ 
keeping  thus  discusses  the  question 
of  manners  : 
An  anxious  mother  said  to  me  once : 
“  I  met  little  Jack  Horner  the  other  day, 
in  the  street,  and  stopped  to  ask  him 
some  question.  Instantly  his  cap  flew 
off  as  though  it  were  worked  with 
springs.  I  told  my  boys,  afterward,  I 
did  wish  they  had  such  manners  as  that.” 
My  mental  retort  was,  “  Well,  why 
haven’t  they  ?”  Manners  cost  nothing. 
Every  parent — though  the  veriest  pauper 
— can  give  them  to  every  child.  The  only 
price  to  be  paid  is  vigilance — not  eternal 
— on  the  part  of  the  parent. 
Ah  !  if  our  American  people — who  have 
each  to  make  his  own  way  in  the  world, 
entirely  for  himself — would  only  consider 
how  vastly  important  a  child’s  ingrained 
good  manners  are  to  his  whole  future 
life  !  I  would  not  choose  between  them 
and  the  three  R’s,  of  course,  but,  unhesi¬ 
tatingly,  I  would  prefer  them,  for  the 
help  they  will  afterward  prove,  to  a  col¬ 
legiate  education.  This  I  say  deliber¬ 
ately,  remembering  how  a  perfect  know¬ 
ledge  and  practice  in  etiquette  win 
friends,  not  only  in  society  but  in  busi¬ 
ness. 
Literary  Notes. — Bret  Harte’s  young 
daughter,  Miss  Jessamy  Harte,  will  make 
her  literary  d6but  in  the  July  Ladies’ 
Home  Journal,  with  a  most  entertaining 
description  of  “Camp  Life  in  the  Adiron- 
dacks,”  in  which  it  is  claimed  every  evi¬ 
dence  shows  itse[f  of  inherited  literary 
tendencies  not  unlike  those  evidenced  in 
Bret  Harte’s  earlier  work.  Miss.  Harte  is 
a  girl  still  in  her  teens,  and  has  artistic 
as  well  as  literary  proclivities,  as  one  of 
the  illustrations  accompanying  her  first 
article  shows. 
Mr.  Howei.i,  intends  spending  his 
summer  in  a  quiet  nook  in  New  England, 
devoting  a  large  portion  of  his  time  to 
the  writing  of  his  novel  of  American  girl- 
life,  to  he  published  in  the  Autumn  in 
The  Ladies’  Home  Journal. 
Mending  Granite  Ware. — It  is  fre¬ 
quently  stated  that  granite  ironware 
cannot  be  mended  after  it  leaks,  and 
so  must  be  thrown  away.  But  in  fact 
it  is  quite  possible  to  mend  it  in  the 
same  way  as  tin,  by  soldering.  So  says 
an  exchange,  and  the  assertion  is  cleverly 
made  in  the  only  form  that  will  make  it 
appear  helpful.  It  is  “  possible  ”  to  mend 
this  ware,  but  neither  the  home  tinner 
nor  the  hardware  man’s  skilled  worker 
will  mend  it  so  as  to  be  satisfactory.  It 
will  last  for  a  short  time,  and  may  be 
mended  often,  but  the  ware  will  not  hold 
solder  well,  and  the  large  lump  that  is 
necessary  is  by  no  means  a  desirable  ad¬ 
dition  to  the  vessel  so  mended. 
Keep  it  in  tiie  House— that  tt  may  be  promptly 
administered  In  all  sudden  attacks  of  Chtlera  Mor¬ 
bus,  Cramps,  Diarrhoea,  Colic,  or  any  Affection  of  the 
Bowels,  for  which  Dr.  Jayne's  Carminative  Balsam  Is 
an  effectual  remedy.  At  this  season  of  the  year  every 
family  will  And  In  It  a  useful  and  reliable  curative.— 
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cured  by  the 
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